good morning. here are a few stories we'll be looking at on "cbs this morning saturday." almost 1,000 firefighters are battling a fierce wildfire in california. dry brush and high winds make for the worst possible conditions. >> the family of boston marathon bomb suspect tamerlan tsarnaev was shot and killed by police. investigators take a close look at his widow. >> it could be the nra's biggest convention ever. groups' leaders opened the vent with verbal guns blazing, accusing the federal government of waging a culture war.

and the veil is lifted on one of the top secrets of world war ii. an american that gambamboozled the nazis. that and more on "cbs this morning saturday" on saturday may 4th 2013. and good morning, welcome to the weekend. welcome nancy cortis. we have a great group of guests for you including actors. and in the dish we're going to get an early start on cinco de mayo with the host of "patty's mexican table." >> but we begin this morning with news from the middle east. an israeli air strike against syria. israeli officials say the target

was a shipment of advanced long range missiles headed to hezbollah which is both major supporter of the assad regime in syria and an outspoken enemy of israel. at a stop in costa rica on friday, president obama addressed the syrian conflict. major garrett is traveling with the president and joins us from san jose costa rica. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anthony and nancy. white house advisors will not confirm the attack on syria. other top u.s. government officials have confirmed it. the white house knows that israel has attacked syria before back in january and its target then was a convoy of long range missiles. to the much bigger question of whether he would ever send u.s. forces to fight on the ground in the middle of the syrian civil war, president obama here yesterday came as close as he ever has to ruling that out. >> i do not foresee a scenario in which boots on the ground in . >> it's a scenario in which

bother were on the ground. and, by the way, when i cull with the region the president leave office and stabilizing the situation in syria. they agree with that assessment. >> reporter: the president also said the u.s. is continuing to investigate charges that the syrian regime used weapons against the armed rebels. the president says she not concerned about that use of capital weapons but chemical wech ponce transferred from the syrian regime to hezbollah and getting -- weapons transferred from the syrian regime to hezbollah. >> major garrett if costa rica. in catch the worst of the wild sfiers burning if rugged

terrain near the pacific coast of west los angeles. it started on thursday. it is threatening hundreds of hoechlts carter evans is there. carter hello. >> reporter: hi nancy the weather has cooled off quite a bit here. that will be a big help as firefighters prepare for their first day in this firement it has now grown to 28,000 acres. it is only 28% contained. erat tick winds continue to challenge firefighters battling this fast moving blaze north of los angeles. >> there has to be 150-foot flames. >> reporter: crews surrounded michael o'driscoll's home. this camera shows how close the flames got. >> 100-feet 20 1,700 foot with these giant mygofza flames. but they're there. >> reporter: as the fire baurnd

10-mile path of the pacific ocean the battalion chief tried to move his crews in to contain it. >> it's difficult. it's rocky. it's obviously hot and you throw the fire and smoke on top of it. it's very difficult. >> more than 1,000 firefighters are attacking the blaze from the air and oak. they're using every tool they've got, can youing setting backfires. tell me what you can do with these backfires? >> they'reing fuel away from the fire. >> reporter: they're basically trying to cut the fires off before it gets to these homes? >> correct. they're trying to keep it from this side of the kwannion. >> reporter: they weren't so lucky on thursday. >> all of a sudden i said oh my gosh they're showing our rv lot on fire and of course the propane bottles start popping. >> reporter: on friday a new brushfire broke out right in the middle of a densely packed neighborhood near glendale. >> they have all the smoke lanes shut down. >> reporter: but with low winds

and rising humidity ground and air crews were able to quickly knock it down. and those calmer winds today could help with this yaerl firefight. two c-130 air fights are prepared to join in the fight today along with a d.c. 10 air tanker. nancy, anthony, that air tafrger could drop 12,000 pounds of water in a single pass. >> thank you. the gift certificate of boston's bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev reveals he was shot several times by police according to associate press. his body also suffered a blunt trauma jumpry, apparently when his own brother ran over him with a car while fleeing. meanwhile, investigators have turned their attention to tsarnaev's widow. elaine has more from boston. >> reporter: good morning. agents are staij staying outside the house where katherine russell is staying as the fbi

decides whether she played any role in the bombing. investigators are examining the cellphone records of 24-year-old katherine russell, the widow of tamerlan tsarnaev. she had no comment for reporters as she left her parents' home in rhode island friday. authorities are trying to determine what she did or didn't know about the marathon bombings and when. sources close to the investigation say dna and fingerprints found on bomb fragments from the scene are not a match to russ em. at the university of massachusetts at dartmouth where bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev was a sophomore, federal agents searched wooded areas in and around campus. law enforcement officials say they are interested if places where the accused bombers may have held searches. they say the pressure cooker bombs were put together in his older brother tamerlan's

apartment if cambridge. they confirm while small amounts of residue were found inside the apartment, the fbi is investigate wlg the bombs were assembled there or at another investigation. tsarnaev told investigators the plot was originally scheduled for the 4th of july celebrations but for some reason was pushed up to patriot's day. they also say dzhokhar tsarnaev gave varying accounts of the situation. a human rights activist who is in contact with tsarnaev's parents in russia say they are searching for an independent coroner here in the united states. they say they do not plan to bury their son tamerlan until they get their own answers about how he died. anthony. >> elaine thank you. more than 70,000 members of the national rifle association are expected to attend the nra's convention this weekend in

houston. it could be their biggest turnout ever an comes two weeks after the defeat of a gun control bill in the senate. anna warner has that story. >> reporter: the nra convention is expected to draw more than 70,000 people. some of whom friday saw governor perry decry instituted background checks. >> even beyond the basic infrin himment on our rights these gun laws sell the false premise that they're actually solving a problem and they're not. >> reporter: larry potterfield sa long-time nra member and fundraiser whose company mid-way usa is sponsoring this year's convention him were you happy when they defeated the legislation? >> i'm always happy when i win. whenpy team whens, whether it's a basketball team or a baseball team or the nra, i'm very happy, yes. >> reporter: hunter feel and many nra members say background

checks won't prevent crime. >> this solution has no value in newtown, it has no value, why would anybody support a solution like that? why would anybody support a leader that wouldn't come up with solutions that would take people off the streets that shouldn't be on the streets. i think that's the way nra members think the way i think. i'm not willing to let the leaders get by with a a nonsolution. to me it's a fawn solution. >> reporter: elton mcdaniel disagree she an nra member and his sister was shot last year. >> i think we need to do background check, if we can prevent families from going through what happened we are going through, it will do something. >> reporter: senator joe mansion plans once again to get the background legislation passed. but the nra outgoing president david keen expressed expressed skepticism.

>> reporter: if it comes back we are prepared to make our arguments we have the first time. >> reporter: the proposal has support from the american public a.cbs poll this week found 88% of those surveyed favor background checks with just 11 pors posed. for cbs this morning, saturday an fa warner houston. >> so where does all this leave the president's vow to push for kun gun control in the wake of the newtown massacre? what about the rest of the white house agenda? let's talk it over with john dickerson who is in our washington bureau. good morning, john. >> good morning, anthony. to start with the president has put joe biden back on the offensive on the gun control case. how effective is the strategy do you think? >> well the real question on gun control is what's going to happen in the senate and so joe biden in the first round of this

and anything he does further to kind of raise kind of aware nltz is owe awareness is fine. the question is what can be done to put together a coalition of votes among the senators? and that looks like the energy there is still with the senator from west virginia joe mansion, and the senators who are working on this more than the vice president. >> and so john this would realistically entail convings a handful of senators who voted one way a couple weeks ago to suddenly change their minds and vote another way. what realistic is that strategy? >> well that's -- you lay it out the right way. that's a tough hill to climb for those senators because then they would look like they don't know their own mind. that would get them not only the penalty of the nra going after them but voters who say why would they flip-flop t. only way to get to an agreement here would be if the bill were

watered down in such a fashion that you couldn't bring on some of those senators. there has been a lot of pressure on those senators and there have been a little bit of movement in that way. but again, within you have to vote. when you appear to vote against what you previously believe, that's a position no politician wants to be in. >> not to mention that guns are no longer front and center when congress comes back from recess this week, it will be immigration that everyone is talking about. what do you sense right now are the prospects for the immigration bill it was a introduced a couple of weeks ago, this big sweeping reform bill to completely overhaul the way we handle immigration in this country? >> it's going to have a complicated, long tough road ahead of it in the senate the hope for those pushing immigration reform is that they can get something done before the july 4g9 recess. the july 4th recess. folks say they will take probably longer than get then there's the question of the house ware we'll have a tougher road. the place to look of course;

among republicans whether there is a lot of resistance from conservatives and this is a place where the president can play, really any roam. it's up to marco rubio basically as an envoy to the conservatives to explain why the bill works. it will not create amnesty where law-breakers get off free. that means it's basic allawi on this one senator. it's going to be a tough few months for marco rubio. >> john, how effective at this point? is there any evidence rubio is being effective on the point? >> he's having more success than others. lindsey graham or john mccain are not seen as real thorough-going conservative there would be no chance for this. rubio has a relationship with conservatives, but when the fascial review calls it rubio's folley very important among conserve tifts and theb -- conservatives.

that's one more hurdle he's got to get over. for rubio says that in the process of having this go through the senate, people who have concerns will be able to have those concerns addressed. that is -- well, that remains to be seen. sometimes bills can fall apart once they go through the senate and get picked apart. >> all right, john dickerson if walk. thanks, john. now to the economy and a high flying week for the stockmarket. the dow industrials topped 15,000 on friday before dipping just below that mark still a record close t. market's gain was drimps i driven in large part on good news on the jobs front. unemployment fell a tenth of a percentage point in april to 7.5% as employers added 165,000 jobs. joining us with more is yahoo finance host lauren lis teer. is this -- lauren lister? >> i think it depends on the perspective you are coming from from a market perspective,

everything is expectation. everything is measured expectations on the street. the numbers came in at 165,000, as you said it was much higher than the 140,000 the street was expecting. the markets ramallied, in addition it quelled fears that we are heading for some kind of a spring swoon or a sell in may go away situation which could happen. but yesterday, that was great news. if you are stepping back, if you areing looing at the broader trend as many economists do many unemployed people do there are still some signs that this was a very slow recovery. we're adding around 200,000 jobs as an average so far this year each month. that's progress. but some economists say, hey, this is basically keeping up with the growth in the population long-term unemployment remains high 4.4 american, even though that did come down t. labor force participation rates, remember which is the number of people looking for work remains at a mere 30 or more than a 30-year

really low. there are some concerns there, what are they doing, are they working in the shadow of the economy or not? >> we've got this slow steady growth going on for six months or more. we still have the whole issue of the sequester and what impact if any it's going to have. it's come in later than some expected. a lot of people think it's still out there, right? >> they do. i thought going into the seasons report we had so many analysts saying this was the month we would see get we didn't see that. 11,000 sector jobs were lost that pales in comparison to what many were thinking. we see some cuts in furloughs. a few hours for government employees. these aren't cuts. they won't show up in the unemployment rate. as you mentioned many exists are expecting this to show up later, many in the summers. i think even in april if there are cuts felt by businesses or contractors concerned about their incomes or that sort of thing, i don't feel that we saw. that we did see hiring in retail

and if restaurant. those are the first places where you would see cutbacks or a slowdown in hiring if the consumer wasn't spending. >> so there may be an impact out there. the long-term question people want to know is when are we going to get back to where we were in the answer to that seems pretty far off? >> for years. we interviewed economists from northeastern university who did a study on the long-term study on employees. this is something, we don't talk much about the broad trends. as i mentioned, 4.4 emergency they found if you send out res may, a thousand of them. people very mo likely to get a call back, if they have no experience in the field but have had a job in the last six months than those unemployed longer than. that it hint at the deeper trends there. >> lauren lister thanks so much for the great information. >> thank you. a task force in newtown connect has put off a decision about what to do with the sandy hook elementary school. that's where 26 students and

adults were gunned down last december t. board will decide if the building should be renovated or demolished and a few school built at the site or elsewhere. the panel hoped to reach a decision last night but will meet again next week. the los angeles county sheriff is asking for the public's help in finding a murder suspect who was mistakenly released from jail. johnny motta was freed last month because of a clerical error. he was charged with murder for an alleged gang shooting in los angeles three years ago. a solar power plane has completed its first leg of its flight t. solar impulse landed in phoenix during the night. it had taken off near san francisco just after dawn on friday. this is the first attempt to fly a solar plane in sunlight and darkness across the country without fuel. >> now it's nearly 20 minutes after the hour. let's take a look at the weather

for your weekend. for all this ranting against foreigners north korean dictator kim john un is set to go ahead with plans for a world amusement park in north korea, featureing landmarks like the big band and the i'vele tower if paris. it may have come from china which is building replicas on a much wider scale, even copycat cities as wieiate anderson reports. >> reporter: you can find copies of western architecture everywhere in china. the london bridge the u.s. capital, plus some curious mixes of the capital and white house. but those are buildings.

these are cities. there's a growing industry now devoted to copying cities for the chinese to live in and work. this office complex has been designed to mimic manhattan. there is a sweeping recreation of a town in austria. a replica of an english disturb u suburb and this dead-on copy of a boulevard in paris, complete with a scaled down i'veeiffel tower. they are sold on the image of a more dplam russ life t. sales manager. and people wanted to buy romance. >> a romanced life. >> reporter: that's also what we heard from residents. "paris is romantic," this woman said, "i just like the way the buildings make me feel. "for many chinese living in a copycat city elevates your social status because it's so

different. it's different from the endless rows of high rise apartments that saturate china's cities. will that clang? >> yes, it will definitely change in ten/20 years. >> reporter: we also spoke to a rising princeton train architect who calls the copycat craze temporary. he predicts this will end as china becomes more powerful and people want their apartments to feel kindese. >> to me to experience this in this period in china about these buildings. >> reporter: and anza -- an dolescent period. even if this is a fraiz phase, why are they driven to pass replicate whole towns can be seen through different eyes. a westerner might see envy or lack of original thinking the chinese pride themselves on the skill as if studying the west

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nature valley. nature at its most delicious. the kansas city royals are leaving the american league ce the kansas city royals are leading the american 26, but for the past two days they have been trying to play in mudville. it has been no joy for their fans. they made the best of it slipping and sliding in the tarp in the rain on thursday. >> it looks like fun. heavy rain forced postponement of two games. up with after the royals and white sox had blogged through three-and-a-half soggy innings. it was the fifth of this young season for kansas city. >> look at that. welcome back to "cbc this morning" i'm anthony mason. the fate of accused killer jody arias who is now in the hand of the jury her trial has been going on for four months in phoenix with tales of sex, lice and murder that made eight

courtroom sensation for tabloid readers and tv viewers. >> you're the one that did this right? >> yes. >> reporter: over the past five years, the jody arias murder case has provided so much drama, there is already a made-for-tv movie in production and the verdict isn't in yet t. real story began on june 4th 2008 when arias' boyfriend travis alexander was found dead in his home, shot in the head stabbed 27 times his throat slit. then the lies began. first arias denied she was there. but investigators found nude pictures that put her at the crime scene. next arias told "48 hours" that alexander was the victim of a home invasion. >> i heard a really loud pop and the next thing i remember i was lying next to the bathtub and travis was screaming. >> reporter: now arias is claiming she did kill alexander

but if self-defense. >> travis left you no other option but to defend herself. >> reporter: on thursday prosecutors did not hold back in their closing arguments. >> and even after stabbing him over and over again and even after slashing his throat from ear to ear and then even after taking his gun, shooting him in the face she will not let him rest in peace. >> reporter: on friday arias' lawyer summed it up this. >> set lies and dirty little secrets. >> reporter: joining with us more on the case is jean k asarez from true tv. se joins us now from phoenix. jean, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, antony. >> gene, what is the defense hoping to accomplish here? their client, obviously shlg

changed the story a bunch of times t. jury has got to be confused. >> well in this particular trial it has been self-defense the whole way. this is the most serious type of trial we have it is a death penalty trial. the defense have to knock out the premeditation because there is strong evidence towards premeditation beginning with a gun. this was a gun 25 caliber gun. t happened to be owned by her grandfather the home she lived in, happened to go missing. there was a burglary and travis alexander was shot with a .25 caliber gun. so what the defense doing is saying that jodii is very smart. she is. she wouldn't do something so stupid as to take her grandfather's gun to be able to have that gun traced so unusually. >> i thought it was unusual the defense attorney said it's not about whether or not you like jody arias nine days out of ten i don't like jody arias, but

that doesn't matter. what kind of strategy is that? >> reporter: well, it within a common stravenlth i was sitting in the courtroom thinking wow, nine days out of ten, the jury didn't flinch they were watching. what he's trying to tell the jury is you got to look at the evidence. you don't like what she did. look what se did. you got to view the from the evidence to determine if these guilty of first degree murder. >> what options does the jury have, jean? >> reporter: anthony, they're so stoic. since january, i have watched the jury. they are focused. they are intense. do you know they had 220 jury questions for jody arias on the stand. they can write down questions. 220. they're sophisticated questions. they know what they are doing the jury. >> so they can find her guilty of first degree murder second degree murder and what other options? >> reporter: and manslaughter.

this is a huge win for the defense because they had their comment on the evidence in the cloorth to say this was a heat of passion situation. even if she believed her life was if danger she went overboard. she snapped and you can look at that crime scene the chaotic nature of that crime scene and that tems you, ladies and gentlemen, this is a heat of passion manslaughter. >> so what are the sentencing option, then jean on those possible convictions? >> well, if they convict her of first degree murder we go straight into a penalty phase t. jury has to find the aggravateing factor of cruelty. this was done with such cruelty towards travis alexander. if so the jury must determine unanimously life or death. if it's second degree murder the judge will sentence in about four to six weeks manslaughter. the judge will sentence in four to six weeks. >> we have a few seconds left, what's your take? you think this is going to be pa long deliberation? >> oh that's a good question. this jury knows this case very well. but you never know, there are four months worth of evidence over 600 exhibits in this case

could be mid-week. it could be 15 minutes. i don't know. >> all right, jean thank you. >> thank you. and now here is a look at the weather for your weekend. weather for your weekend. up next, for skin cancer awareness month, the mayo clinic created a up neck-a video aimed towards young people. we'll show you why it's so badly needed. you are watching "cbs this morning saturday."

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astonishingly increase of melanoma among young people. able to-fold research shows in young -- eight-fold research shows in young women and men. >> why is that? >> there are several thoughts, first of all, we're becoming so poor at applying sunscreen, i see a big increase in tank beds particularly amongst teenage girls. so this is just such a preventible type of cancer. it doesn't make take much to do it. >> one of the things i found alandmarking was the statistic that a person's risk for melanoma doubles if he or she has had five or more sunburns at any age. so it doesn't take much. >> that is particularly for young people under the age of 18, in fact. so it's the sunburns we are getting very early on that appear to be the most risky. we have to do this in kids. that's why we made this psa to reach out to the younger audience. >> so obviously, we need to take care of our kids and get

sunscreen on them out in the sun for a long period of time. what's the best kind of sunscreen for a kid and an adult? >> so ophthalmologists recommend a uva protectant. most people don't realize you have to re-apply. you put it on, in any family, we don't do the pool at a resort everyone knows get every two hours you have to reapply it. if you have been skiing hiking my goodness you have to reaplay it t. re-ap ply indication is critical and taking breaks. it is always sun in the shade. it's a part of our habit. you have to take the breaks as well. >> so this is anybody that has teenage kids or younger. i know you do. your 14-year-old made your fabulous tie. >> isn't it gorgeous? >> sun spots? >> this is a battle that you have just to get the kids to do it. my wife is really vigilant about

this but they always they're ready to walk out the door without doing anything. you got to do get plus you talked about tank beds. >> yeah. >> how much trouble are tank beds? >> well again they're' fluted with the risk of melanoma and particularly the sunsherburne in the younger, you know into the teen agers it's sort of a terrifying, an alarming increase in utility. it's just not necessary. with respect to the battle, i mean, we have that battle, too, every summer i assure you. now it's just a routine. also the kids know one day of sunburn as you know ruins the holiday t. kids explicitly know. that for us it's our routine. we do not start the day with a sun block on. >> before we go take us through warning signs so you know what to get them all checked. >> a, b, c, d, e. the a is the asymmetry. if one-half of the mole looks different to the other half of the mole t.b is if the border is

irregular, that's worrisome. c, if it's more than one color. that needs to be checked. d is the diameter. this is simple. if it's bigger than an eraserhead, get it checked. e is the evolution. if it's change or getting higher, deeper it needs to be checked. the bottom line is it is i assure you from personal experience, it's easier to get it checked early than watch it and say, well, programs it will get better. it needs to be checked. >> a great reminder. thank you dr. levine thank you so much. up next before he was the most trusted man in america, walter kronkite was a war correspondent. a few book details and experiences on the front lines in world war ii you are watching "cbs this morning saturday." [ music playing ] .

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american troops. >> it was my first time on camera. i just fell into whatever it is i do masterfully. i never took any allocushion lessons, no dictation lessons, i might have been a better broadcaster if i had. >> walter kronkite from 1962 to fine 81 he was called the most trusted man in america. but at age 26 in 1942 he was a newspaper reporter sent to cover world war ii in europe. kronkite wrote hundreds of lettories his new bride bessey discovered by his grandson walt now out on tuesday in a book on tuesday. "kronkite's war. he is a producer. his co author good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> well to start with how did you find these letters? >> i went down to the university of texas with my father after my grandfather passed away. we discovered the treasure trove of all these letters he wrote

home to my grandmother several times a week in world war ii. we thought it was fascinating stuff. so i brought them to the professor here. we put them into a book. >> you hven seen them before? >> i hasn't seen them before. it was almost like a war time diary. he wrote to her several times a week outlining what he did in world war ii. >> there was 500 letters. we think of him as a serious journalist. you see a different side of him. he's a ro mant ec. he is calling her darling, he is saying i got your wonderful letter, i was so down in the dumpts until i received it. you can see how much i needed it. it's really sweet. >> my grandparents had this incredible marriage, married for 65 years. it was the most fun loving funny people. the two of them are truly hillarioust. they just loved being with each other. they had the most fun. >> i know that he told you a lot of stories about the war growing up. he was a great story-teller.

did you learn smrk either of you, in these letters of world war ii that you didn't know before? >> well it was this great community of reporters in london, including edward r. murrow. he tried to redrut walter e -- recruit walter concite. he was a wire service reporter. he liked the legal arrays out of this water service from the offer. but you can see he was really having the time of his life reporting the biggest story of all times but he was also torn kronkite's war was world war ii. there was this war within himself to be his desire to be a great journalist and to be with bessey. he kept trying to bring her over. he never could. >> a direct journalism direct to his wife. >> exactly. in a way he was taking her with him. it was as if she was his tour

guide. he would write detailed descriptions of london and paris. >> it was one particular story that he told in these letters that really stood out to you? >> his he crash landed his glider behind enemy lines. it was the 101st airborne they got drag bid an airplane. he crash landed behind enemy plane, they were there for 12 days under heavy shelling, unthe most scary conditions. he wrote home to his wife for the first time in the war he was truly, truly scared. >> walt is following in his grandfather's footsteps. he's a vital member of the cbs capitol hill teach real go-getter. i think his grandfather would be really proud to see him now. >> he would, indeed. did you get a different sense from your grandfather do you think? >> it really reenforced what i knew about him. bob schieffer says said it best at his funeral when he said he was the same man off screen and

on screen. it showed in the letters. he was competitive. he was hard working. he was fun loveing. it showed who he was. i think you saw that on camera as well. >> thank you both for being with us this morning. and a reminder "kronkite's war" will be out on tuesday. coming up next unbeaten welterweight champ floyd merryweather on defending his title tonight. are you watching cbs this morning saturday. >> you are watching "c bbs morning saturday." you hear it from the best, floyd merriweather. .

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and we're back with walt cronkite of cbs news. you know how many times i'm in the hallways of congress with walt and i introduce him to some member of congress and i say this is walt cronkite iv. they do a double take. >> i bet. >> did you always know that you wanted to go into journalism like your grandfather? >> no, i didn't. i knew i always loved politics and history. and he encouraged that very much. >> i'm sure. >> i didn't know i wanted to go into journalism. i decided that four or five years ago. i love it so much. >> you're great at it. >> i love working for you. >> he's a multitasker. i didn't even know that he was working on a little something called "cronkite's war." but it took you three years. >> three years. and long term project. working with the professor. i started my senior year of college.

it's been fun. it's been interesting to learn about my grandfather. >> you spent a lot of time with your grandfather, didn't you? >> i spent the summers with him in martha's vineyard. he was so much fun. both of my grandparents. they were older and still very much fun to be around. >> but i mean that's -- not everybody gets that opportunity sometimes, you know? and so that's a wonderful thing. and especially the kind of time you had. you went sailing with him and things like that? >> sailing many times a week in the summers. and we had a big family dinner every night. we talked politics history with all my cousins. >> what was he like at the dinner table? >> funny. he and my grandmother were very very funny. >> and they tlik have a good time. in the book, he talks about his nights out with his journalist friends just as much as he talks about being on the front lines. he really chronicled some of the good times that they had. >> they had a lot of fun. they really did. it was an adventurous time especially world war ii. great adventure for them. >> you see the relationship in the book. it's a wonderful thing. stay with us. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday."

♪ it's a beautiful day ♪ ♪ it's a beautiful day ♪ welcome to "cbs this morning saturday." i'm anthony mason. >> coming up in this half hour his name is kevin krigger. he's out to do something no black jockey has done in more than 100 years, win the kentucky derby. >> and it's a tempting target for thieves and hackers. how to keep your smart phone and the data in it safe. and is this any way to enjoy a good meal? well, for some adventurous foodies, dining in the dark helps them savor the flavor. but first, our top story this half hour the california wildfires. the biggest, most dangerous blaze is burning near the coast

in camarillo, west of los angeles. we have a reporter there this morning. good morning, carter. >> reporter: good morning. you know, the weather is cooling off quite a bit. the wind is dying down. that's going to really help out firefighters with this massive fire today. so far, it's burned 28,000 acres. it's only 20% contained. now ground crews have been trying to surround this fire for the last three days now. it's the high winds that have been driving this fire so quickly. it burned ten miles to the pacific ocean in the first day alone. in some cases, fire fighters are battling a wall of flames as high as 100 feet. thousands have been evacuated. more than a dozen homes have been damaged. but with the calmer winds today, firefighters are hoping they can finally get the upper hand. in a few hours they're going to meet here at the command post. they're going to come up with a battle plan for the day. that could include a massive aerial attack today because these planes will be able to get into the fire better with the lower winds. it could include two c-130 air

tankers from the california air national guard. also we could see a dc-10 air dafrpg tank tanker in the air. that is capable of dropping 12,000 gallons of water and fire retardant in a single pass over the fire. the plan for that aircraft is get out ahead of this fire put fire retardant on the mountain ridges to try to cut it off as it approaches. >> we'll be watching carter evans. thank you. now to the on going boston marathon bombing investigation. authorities have begun focusing their attention on the widow of the slain bombing suspect, tamerlan tsarnaev. we have the latest boston. good morning elaine. >> reporter: good morning, anthony. investigators are examining the cell phone records and laptop computer of katherine russell, she is the 24-year-old widow of marathon bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev. russell did not say anything to reporters as she left her

parents' home in rhode island on friday. authorities are trying to determine what she did or didn't know about the marathon bombing and when. sources close to the investigation say dna and fingerprints found on bomb fragments from the scene are not a match to russell. at the university of massachusetts dartmouth where bomb is suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev was a sophomore, federal agents searched wooded areas in and around campus. they're interested in places where the accused bombers may have tried testing explosives. so far, the searches have turned upping in. as for tamerlan sar ni avenue a funeral home in worcester, massachusetts says it will handle arrangements for his body. a human rights activist working with tsarnaev's family in russia says that they are searching for an independent coroner here in the united states. they say they do not plan to bury their son tamerlan until they get their own answers about how he died. anthony? >> thank you.

israel confirms that its air force launched a strike against syria. it says the target was a shipment of advanced long range missiles bound for hezbollah. the lebanese militant group and an enemy of israel. the air strike was launched friday. israeli officials will not say where it took place. they describe the weapons as sophisticated and game changing. a routine traffic stop in iowa near cleveland turned deadly. newly released video taken from the police car caught the drama. the shooting happened in march. james gillchrist opened fire on the police car with an ak-47 rifle. the two officers returned fire killing him. the officers recovered from injuries suffered in the battle. space mountain reopened. it was closed last month for contractor fell and injured. disney may be forced to pay a fine of more than $250,000. safety upgrades were made to the ride. in northern california a

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19 horses will start today's 139th kentucky derby and one rider is out to make history. kevin krigger's journey to churchill downs began nearly 2,000 miles away on the crib caribbean island of st. croix. >> he is the first black jockey to saddle up for the derby since 1921. his goal is to win in more than a century. michelle miller has his story. >> reporter: jockey kevin krigger wants everyone to share his love of horses. >> they have a lot of heart. >> reporter: it was a horse named goldencents that carried krigger to a rousing victory last month in california. >> and goldencents and kevin krigger won the santa anita derby. >> reporter: a victory that propelled the usually laid back krigger into a celebration. >> what excites me is to see

when i'm done riding and i'm done winning, the joy it brings out of the owners the trainers my family. >> kevin is a tremendous -- tremendous jockey. great work ethic and, you know he's got an unbelievable chemistry with goldencents. >> reporter: were you born to ride this horse? >> krigger was born on st. croix in the u.s. virgin islands where he rode his first race at age 17. but even as a schoolboy, kevin would sneak off to ride every chance he got. >> the teacher called me every day, krigger, your son is on a horse. he should be at school. >> reporter: krigger is one of hardest working guys in the game. arriving by dawn's early light, well before the horses have had their morning baths. he goes barn to barn to hustle exercise rides from any trainer that will let him. he says he loves the view from

his office. that hard work is paying off. krigger has become one of the top riders on the west coast. and today has a golden chance to not just win the derby but to restore the forgotten legacy. do you know what is at stake here? >> of course i do. there hasn't been an african-american jockey to win since 1902. >> reporter: in the late 1800s, african-american jockies dominated racing. they were major stars and some were even accorded equal status. >> we were horse racing. the trainer, the rider, the very first kentucky derby was won by an african-american oliver lewis. >> reporter: we met with a retired jockey. that's where many of the great black riders are buried among crumbling head stones. long says when black riders started winning more and more prize money, some jealous whites

led a violent campaign. >> it created a great, almost a racial barrier in racing. so little by little we were weeded out. >> reporter: for his part kevin says he admires those who came before. but -- >> in my eyes and my mind it's not about that. it's about me winning the derby. it's about the trainers and the owners and the country accessing me as a kentucky derby rider and looking beyond the complexion of my skin. >> reporter: krigger hopes today's race can be about more than just race. for "cbs this morning saturday," michelle miller louisville. >> i love the story and the fact he used to skip school to go riding. >> you can bet that everybody in st. croix will be watching the race today. >> michelle miller looked nervous on that horse. >> she looked fantastic. there she is prancing along. >> she looked a little shaky up

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more than 100 million americans have a smart phone but carrying around a high-tech gadget makes you vulnerable to high-tech threats. we offer ways to keep your smart phone and the information stored on it safe. and here with more on that is consumer reports electronics editor paul reynolds. good morning, paul. >> good morning. >> tell us what the number one thing is we can do to keep the guys safe. >> probably the number one thing is to take some basic security precautions. we were a little concerned. we went out to a national survey and found 40% of people who own these things don't take some basic precautions like putting a screen lock on so you have to put in a code to open the thing. backing it up so that the data on it is protected. or getting an app that will let you find your phone or will erase it if you know that it's been stolen. >> i know -- i mean i hate the

process of picking up my phone and unlocking it. i'm one of the 40%. but if you're saying it's important. >> it's important if you use -- if you use the phone for a lot of apps and have a lot of information on it. if you're very very minimal user, maybe not. but it's a little bit of an inconvenience. but for most people it's probably something worth doing. >> talk about ways when you download apps you can protect yourself. just this week for example, i downloaded one app. it asked for access to my address book. before i knew it everyone i knew had gotten an e-mail from me. i hadn't approved that. so what kinds of things can do you when you download an app to make sure you're protecting your information? >> first of all, take a look at the permissions it's asking for. make sure that there are things that make sense. we found, for example, weather apps that ask for your contacts and your contact information. we can't see exactly why they need that. so take a look at that. if you're an android owner, you will need to choose not to get that app or get an alternative

one. if you're an iphone owner, you can actually go in and toggle and elect for the permissions you want. make sure they make sense for what the app is actually doing. that's one thing. >> how can you tell if an app is suspicious? i think a lot of people particularly apple products they think that their less susceptible to hacking than a pc. >> right. if you're buying from the main app stores itunes google play and amazon app store, you're in good shape. people get into trouble, it's a small percentage of people but if you go out to other third party sites and start downloading apps that's when you get into trouble. only go to the trusted places because they actually have a process to pretty much make sure those apps are sound. >> let's talk about these unsecured wi fi hot spots we use like in airports. i'm always suspicious. i'm wondering, you know, what my information is passing through when i'm in a place like that. how dangerous are they? >> well they're potentially dangerous. what you should do is if you're

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making sure they're updating the soft wear and making sure the phones are immune to attack. i think there is a growing awareness now because of how central these are to our lives and there's a lot of different players, including consumers but not only consumers that really need to pay attention to it. >> people are changing phones now all the time, of course. and those phones have a lot of data on them. what is the best way to get rid of an old phone? >> when you turn in that phone, you should erase the data from it. restore it to factory settings. what that will do is take off the apps and so on. make sure that you've taken out the memory card that is in it or the sim card if it has that. just to make sure that if you're passing along to somebody else you're recycling it at a store or something, that no one, the chances of someone getting hold of your personal information on that phone is reduced or eliminated. >> all right. paul reynolds thanks so much for the great advice. anthony will get a pass code by the end of the show. we really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me.

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good morning. >> good morning. yes, fine dining and then there is dark dining. nowadays at a few restaurants you can enjoy both. sushi, shrimp snails. for many people they don't look all that appetizing. even if they taste fantastic. >> we see foods first. and so about it time it arrives on your plate, you've already started to judgments about it. >> a professional food tester joined me to try some truly ugly looking foods, oysters. what do they say to you? >> fightening. it looks like a lot of creepy crawly food that is alive. it was alive just seconds ago. >> so you think a lot of people are intimidated by it? >> absolutely. >> the oyster smells briny. >> you want to sniff it. >> felt slimy, but tasted just fine. >> pretty good. >> well, when we say we taste

something, in actuality we're using all five of our senses to experience food. so unless you close your eyes or eat in the dark, it's really hard to turn off the other senses. >> but one new york restaurant aims to do just that. >> the venue is called in the dark. i joined a group of food professionals for din tler inner. infrared cameras served the meal which was served by a blind waiter. >> here are two empty plates. >> the darkness doesn't bother him who serves using sounds and touch. >> can i have a glass of wine? >> right here. >> got it. >> customers are left completely in the dark when it comes to what's on the menu. does it allow diners to focus on

the flavor. >> even if they don't know what's on their plate. he said he worked hard to make his food tasty. >> we do try to play with flavors and textures. >> especially since the diners must go without the dominant sense. >> that's good. they love it. >> it's not fish. >> you take away sight and all of a sudden they're having to pull this party trick that they normally don't have to do. >> i actually found it very hard work eating in the dark. why is that? because my other senses have to compensate. >> when you take away the sense of sight, you do have to compensate somewhat. it's just not something we're used to doing. >> by far the hardest task was eating with a knife and fork. all i know is my mother is going to be very upset with my table manners. >> we spent an hour and a half in there. it doesn't really let you see quite how pitch black that room

was. one woman was so claustrophobic that she had to leave once we sat down. >> that would be me. you don't get points for presentation in a restaurant where you can't see the food either do you? >> you do for things like texture. you want the food to feel unusual. they play around with that. you have dishes you think would be one thing and they're something else. >> so did it heighten the taste for you or were you so confused -- >> no, you're really focusing on taste than you would normally. at a restaurant often you have distractions, you have conversations going on. and this place you really can think what is that in my mouth. >> that is fascinating. thank you for that glimpse -- or lack of a glimpse into this really fascinating world. thank you for being here this morning. coming up the untold tale of one of the most secret operations of world war ii. the ghost army that fooled the nazis over and over again. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." ♪

>> we're going to continue. so what did you think in the end? >> i think the food was really good. they chose dish that's had a combination of textures you wouldn't expect. >> right. >> my favorite was the dessert that was this sort of stick of pastry that rolled it around white chocolate and chile flakes. you had this crunch. and then you realize that it's sweet and then afterwards it becomes really really spicy. >> you don't realize until you're in that situation how much sight affects how you approach food. and your impression of it. you don't get what so many restaurants do now which is you know these ornate plates and they try to entice you that way to begin with. >> the research shows that we

are so heavily dominated by our sense of sight when it comes to things like food. there's a lot of studies done where they turned white wine into red with food coloring and even like top chefs can't tell you what you're eating. >> did they tell you what you were eating? there was a woman who couldn't tell whether she was having chicken or fish. that would kind of stress me out. >> well, that's the thing. it really makes you work hard. what if this was something that we don't like? there was a woman that hated fish. she was convinced that the slow roasted pork we had was fish. and i income the kitchen earlier, i was totally quiet. >> a lot of people knocking over their, you know water glasses and things? >> a lot of knives and forks in your lap. >> you need a psychiatrist in this restaurant to deal with all the stress involved. >> definitely got to get your clothes dry cleaned. >> i would say so, yeah. >> we're going to keep the lights on. stick around. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday."

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nearly 70 years after world war ii ended, a new pbs documentary is pulling back the curtain on one of the war's most secret missions titled "the ghost army," the story tells the story of a unit that deployed after d-day and used all kinds of trick troy defeat hitler's generals about the position of american forces. >> the view from the air reveals hundreds of american vehicles. intercepted allied radio transmissions confirm the presence of two american divisions. but the tanks spotted from the air are 93 pound inflatable dummies. the sounds come from loud speakers. radio transmissions from a script. it's amazing the trickery that we were able to perpetrate upon the enemy. >> rick buyer wrote and directed

the film which repremiers on pbs. >> how did they come up with this idea? >> they basically they had the idea that there is this british deception that they were impressed with. so the americans wanted to have their own deceptions. that's how how they developed the deception. it's fooling the germans. >> what did they do there? >> they recorded sounds. they had a great collection of sound effects records. they put them together to produce sonic programs they played at night. they could be heard 15 miles away. they could make it feel like an armored column is moving in at night. >> 1,000 guys pretending to be 40,000, right? >> exactly. you think about what they're doing. first of all, the inflatables, you see them. they look hysterical. they had tanks. they had artillery. they had trucks.

they had planes. they could paint the whole picture for air yl reconnaissance of what it looked like. you combine that with the sonic and radio deception and other impersonation stuff they did it's an amazing story. >> and were they able to pull off the deception every time or was there a point where the germans were on to them? >> they did 21 different deceptions and there's no evidence at all that the germans ever figured out there was a deception unit there. and there was one particular deception in september of 1944 where they were filling a hole in george pat on's line for seven days about a 40 mile hole in the line. and they held them there and prevented the germans from getting around and attacking patton in the rear. it was one of the more critical operations. >> who did they recruit? >> they had a lot of creative people especially for the visual deception. they recrueltyited a lot of artists. you want somebody with a good visual eye. and so they had a lot of folks like that in the unit. and one of them was a 21-year-old kid from indiana

named bill blast. >> the designer? >> he went on to a good career as a fashion designer. >> so you was it that in this operation stayed secret for such a long time, 40 years, right? >> i think that the army wanted to preserve the idea that they put to use here in case we had a war with the russians. in case the cold war turned hot. here we had the deception unit that worked. it worked on battlefield against the nazis. we want to see if we can save that idea if we need it again. >> i love the name of the unit the 603rd camouflage engineers. >> they're the guys that handled the visual deception. and they were originally recruited to do camouflage. then they took this camouflage unit and said no you're not camouflage anymore. now you're the deceivers on the battlefield. it was a great shock to the men in the unit. >> do you think the military still uses tactics like this? >> i think that the military still practices a great deal of deception and they don't share with me what deceptions they are doing.

>> no? >> i don't know why. >> but you are sensing any of these original inflatable tanks do exist? >> i know that during the first gulf war they used inflatable tanks and sound effects. of course they had trade ar tranresponders. we have no evidence that the world war ii ones are still in existence. i think they did not past the test of time. >> wow. well rick buyer, thank you so much for telling this amazing story. >> i love this store i. >> thank you so much. up next actor, producer white house liaison and now host of a smart new reality show "the big brain theory." you're watching "cbs this morning saturday."

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bullet, an insanely difficult task. and that insanely difficult task is your next challenge. >> no way. >> your challenge is to build a device that can be remotely controlled from inside your bufrpger to hit that missile in the air. >> feeling like she did, no way! good morning. >> good morning. >> thanks for having me. >> it s it's exciting. it is dorky tv. >> so what exactly is the premise? >> the premise is basically top chef for engineers. and so we have ten young american engineers and a set of cooking they have to come up with solutions to crazy engineering challenge that's have real world applications. >> and the contestants are from all walks of life serious engineers and scientists? >> exactly. half of them are socially awkward. they're all brilliant, though. we have folks that are nuclear submarine welders, folks that have design backgrounds, guy would works on the mars rover. so they really are experts in their fields and young and they

were really exciting to work with. >> and there are disagreements. there are fights i'm sure in this process. it's not because of who is sleeping with whom or not or whatever, it's because we have to come up with an idea. >> yeah, you'll see them yelling and screaming at each other like do you in a lot of documentary style tv shows. they're yelling at each other because each one believes they have the best solution to an everything nearing problem that could affect the history of the united states. sort of, you know it's kind of nuts in that sense that the stakes are that high and, yet, they love each other, they get along despite all the back and forth. >> this show sort of appeals to something that a lot of businesses and educators have been talking about which is trying to make science, technology and everything nearing, math cool again. >> exactly. >> is that why you took the job? >> i had to take a he is battical from acting and worked with the obama administration. we were looking at the amazing young people that are graduating and the traditional job market is bouncing back. but a lot of these guys are

starting their own businesses inventing things. they majored in engineering and science. because of an arts component, a lot turned to innovation. they're making ridiculous movies after the white house which i love, but then discovery channel approached with. this i thought what a cool kind of side project to focus on the positive that all these awesome young people are doing. we're hoping that takes off. >> and the contestants are judged by a celebrity panel of scientific types? >> yes. not the kardashians as much as mark fuller who runs a firm called wet. that is the place you want to go to you're a young engineer. every week we have guest judge who's come on. so we've had folks like carl edwards, nascar champion he drives 198 miles an hour. >> buzz aldrin too? >> he has been to the moon. the cool thing about both of these things is they're known for something else and then you hear them talk about the psychics of a race car, the efrpg

engineering that goes into a race car and then buzz says when i was on the moon,' pliz that to the stuff they're working. it's awesome to watch. >> you took a little career detour anden with to the white house for-- detour and went into the white house. what did you do? >> i worked in the office the office of public engagement the outreach team. i worked on youth outreach. every little thing from the president's health insurance piece where you can stay on your parents health insurance until you're 26, don't ask, don't tell repeal repeal, doubling the pell grant, the stuff i worked on had the most consensus. so if you're under 35 the things you care about are investing in education, repealing don't ask, don't tell. so it was an incredible experience to see that. >> you stayed longer than you thought you were going to stay. >> i was going to stay for a year. then i realized very quickly that government operates very slowly. a lot of the things i was working on wouldn't get done until the following year. i stayed for a second year. after the second year i also needed to remind you know, of the acting profession that is my

first love and i had the chance to go back and on "how i met your mother." >> you're not going to run for senate? >> i have no plans to run for office. >> is there going to be another "howard and kumar"? >> i hope so. we're trying to get an animated version that they're going to decide on in the next couples weeks. >> good luck with all the projects you're working on. thanks very much. "the big brain theory" airs wednesday nights on the discovery channel. up next cinco de mayo is tomorrow and we have a chef that brought the mexican table to help us celebrate. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday."

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switched careers and launched the popular cooking show "pati's mexican table" on pbs. >> she is now the official chef at the mexican cultural institute in washington and just released her first cookbook. she is here with a cinco de mayo feast this morning. it looks fantastic. >> thank you for having me here. i'm so looking forward to it. >> congratulations on the cookbook. >> thank you, so much. thank you. i'm very happy about it. it's a four-year working on it. tell us what you brought us today. >> okay. so we have a combination of food from different regions from mexico. and we have the chilorio which is northern mexican food. like really cowboy mexican food. and the chilorio you can make it with chicken or pork. and how it's made is you cook the pork or the chicken covered in orange juice. you render all of the fat.

you cook it down until it starts browning. and then the meat is almost falling apart. and then you finish it off with an a chili sauce. you get a sloppy joe consist ency. we're going to roll it like it's a burritto. and then we have the charros which is also food from the mexican north. it has rosa tomatoes and onions an jalapenos and bacon and churizo. you can take it as crazy as you want. we have guacamole which is my favorite way of eating guacamole which is chunky. and you dress it up with pomegranates. and, you know the mexican avocado, you really can get them year round. >> she knows a lot about avocados.

>> yes i grew up growing avocados in hawaii. and so tell people how to pick the right avocado? >> so you have to just go out to the store and don't be shy. grab the avocado. people at the store are looking at you, saying i'm just testing it. you have to feel it. you have to just hold it. give it a light squeeze. if it's giving in it's ready for you. if it is really hard like a baseball bring it home -- >> put it in a paper bag, right? >> exactly. you know some area in your kitchen. but when you grab it, your fingers go all the way into just leave it at the store. >> you grew up in mexico. >> i did. >> in a family of cooks, right? >> yes. >> you weren't really a cook in the beginning? >> no. i was the ugly duckling the one that was -- you know i have three sisters that are older than me who are stunning and lovely and gorgeous. we're all close.

and they were all into the food world since they were very little. but i was the one who was labelled as the intellectual. the studious one. i wanted to be in academics. and you got your masters degree in latin american studies from georgetown. >> i went to georgetown. >> high five. >> and then you realized you have the talent. >> that's right. >> so then when did you realize i'm not following my dream, i need to change course? >> you know i zig zaged a lot. i did venture into the food world many times. when i first moved with my husband to texas when we first got married, i worked as an assistant for a cooking show for chef stephen piles. but i was doing sort of studio academic side, the research. it was just a little while. and then when we moved to washington, d.c. i went to school again. i worked at a think-tank.

my husband kept insisting, pati you should start cooking. >> you look beautiful there. >> i was in yucatan there doing some market research. that is a terrible photo, i'm sorry. >> so your husband said why don't do you what you love? >> he insisted. he insisted. i was very skeptical. you know i married a liberal mexican. >> he wanted you back in the kitchen. >> why aren't you in the kitchen? i thought maybe he doesn't want me to work? doesn't want me to be a professional. >> we're glad you did. we have to get you to sign our dish for us and tell white house you want to share this meal with. >> well, you know i have three boys, 5, 7, and 13. and i would love to share this meal with them 20 years from now. >> that's a great idea. >> i want them to come back home. >> well happy cinco de mayo. >> this is great. >> thank you so much. and for more on pati and the

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tomorrow on "cbs this morning," ncis is still one of the hottest shows on tv. mark harman and tracy smith talks about life on screen and off. >> now here's nora o'donnell with a look at what's happening monday on "cbs this morning." >> good morning. on monday we'll reveal this year's list of the fortune 500. last year's top company brought in $452 billion in revenue. who takes this year's top spot? we'll see you monday at 7:00 on "cbs this morning." >> your voice held up okay after all. >> that's right. you know the sinuses are clearing up now with the tequila. >> thank you for being here this week. >> thank you for having me. >> have a great weekend, everybody. thanks for being with us on "cbs this morning." we leave you now with a look at the most striking photo images

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first of all what are we drinking here? >> this is a spinning top. >> a spinning top? i like that. >> you drink a little. it makes your head spin. >> yeah, yeah. >> this drink comes from azteca which is also a northern state. >> okay. >> it is it tequila and it has grapefruit soda. you can taste the citrus in it. >> it's a loving morning cocktail. >> yes. >> perfect for saturday morning. >> i might be doing this regularly now. >> exactly. >> so you know when you were growing up in mexico, is this what you would eat for cinco de

mayo? >> people say what are you doing for cinco de mayo? cinco de what? locally celebrated mostly in pueblo. it's not a big deal at allment our independence day is in september, september 15th. >> we'll have to have you back. >> we love it. mexicans love it. it's an excuse to celebrate anything mexican. we love a party. we love the food. so we're jumping in for the fun. >> all right. pati, thank you so much for being with us this morning. we love the meal. happy cinco de what? have a great weekend, everybody. enjoy your week. thanks for being with us. >> bye-bye.

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